Susanne Rafelski and her colleagues had a deceptively simple goal. “We wanted to be able to label many different structures in the cell, but do live imaging,” says the quantitative cell biologist and ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the ...

Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called 'segmentation' and it enables a range of applications, ...

"This work is a milestone in the application of DNA nanotechnology to regulate cell behavior," Liu says. The team works with giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), which are simple, cell-sized structures ...